Usefulness of an Ultraportative Ultrasound Device in the Management of Intra Hospital Emergencies

Hospital Nord

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Failure; Failure; Cardiac

Treatments: Device: echography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02967809

00010254 --- 2016 --- 122

Details and patient eligibility

About

Estimate if the use of a portable cardiac echograph for intra-hospital Emergencie improves the performances diagnose in the bed of patient in department of conventional medicine.

The concordance between the initial medical diagnosis (previous the utilsation of portable echograph) and the final diagnosis (after portable echograph utisation) will be evaluated. These evaluation will be performed after retrospective review of the medical files

Enrollment: 172 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• respiratory or cardiac distress

Exclusion criteria

• pulmonary or cardiac patient transplant morphologic abnormalities Patient in rescucitation care unit

Trial design

172 participants in 2 patient groups

final diagnosis after portable echography

Description:

Experimental group: final diagnosis after portable cardiac echograph examination

Treatment:

Device: echography

final diagnosis without portable echography

Description:

Group control: Final diagnosis for patient ( same medical condition and history) hospitalized in units without portable cardiac echograph examination avaible